Anita Raaj

Biography: Anita Raj was born on 13TH.Aug.1962 her father is the famous actor Jagdish Raj who played a role of police officer in about 150 films. Anita along with her sister learned Kathak dance from the famous kathak guru Gopi Krishna. In one of her presentations she was spotted by Yash Chopra who wanted to take her in her next film, but Hrishikesh mukherjee offered her role in Ã¢â‚¬ËœAcha BuraÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ but her first released film was Ã¢

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Anita Raaj Biography:

Anita Raj was born on 13TH.Aug.1962 her father is the famous actor Jagdish Raj who played a role of police officer in about 150 films. Anita along with her sister learned Kathak dance from the famous kathak guru Gopi Krishna. In one of her presentations she was spotted by Yash Chopra who wanted to take her in her next film, but Hrishikesh mukherjee offered her role in Ã¢â‚¬ËœAcha BuraÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ but her first released film was Ã¢â‚¬ËœPrem GeetÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ which was a critical and commercial hit of its time. After this success Anita worked with many famous directors of Bollywood as well as south films. Some of her famous films are Ã¢â‚¬ËœJara Si JindagiÃ¢â‚¬â„¢, Ã¢â‚¬ËœAcha BuraÃ¢â‚¬â„¢, Ã¢â‚¬ËœPrem TapsyaÃ¢â‚¬â„¢, Ã¢â‚¬ËœLakho Ki BaatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢, Ã¢â‚¬ËœZameen AasmaanÃ¢â‚¬â„¢, Dulha Bikta HaiÃ¢â‚¬â„¢, Ab Ayega MajaÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ and the likes. Anita was offered a lead role in Ã¢â‚¬ËœCoolieÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ opposite Amitab Bachhan where Reena Roy was also in the queue but at the end Rati Agnihotri played the heroine in the film. Anita avoided doing glamorous roles in the beginning but after her good films flopped, and she noticed that her films like Ã¢â‚¬ËœNaukar Biwi KaÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ and Jeene nahin DoongaÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ did well in the box office, She agreed to play glamorous roles on screen. Her successful films with glamorous roles were Ã¢â‚¬ËœMasterjiÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ and Ã¢â‚¬ËœIljamÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ and Ã¢â‚¬ËœKarishma Kudrat kaÃ¢â‚¬â„¢. Ã¢â‚¬ËœGhulamiÃ¢â‚¬â„¢, Satyamev JayteÃ¢â‚¬â„¢, Kala Dhanda Gore LogÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ and Ã¢â‚¬ËœPyare Kiya Hai Pyar KarengeÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ etc. are the films in which she played deglamorized roles.
Anita has worked with most of the leading heros of her time like Dharmendra, Vinod khanna, Sanjeev Kumar, Manoj Kumar Sashi kapoor, Sanjay Khan, Rishi Kapoor, Kamal Hassan, Rajiv Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Jetandra, Rajesh Khanna and many others, most of these actors were about 20 years older to her but she paired well with them doing romancing roles. While shooting Ã¢â‚¬ËœKarishma Kudrat KaÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ She got attracted towards the director Sunil Hingorani, both being in love married in the year 1986. She acted in films like Ã¢â‚¬ËœJaan Ki BaziÃ¢â‚¬â„¢, Ã¢â‚¬ËœSatya mev JayteÃ¢â‚¬â„¢, Ã¢â‚¬ËœKudrat Ka KarishmaÃ¢â‚¬â„¢, Insaniyat Ke DushmanÃ¢â‚¬â„¢, Ã¢â‚¬ËœIljaamÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ ect. After her marriage majority of these films were commercially successful. Later on she made a decision of quitting films and leading a family life. Nearing the year 2000 she appeared in Ã¢â‚¬ËœAashiquiÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ and Ã¢â‚¬ËœEena Meena DeekaÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ TV serials. In the year 2000 her film Ã¢â‚¬ËœSagar SangamÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ was released after a long delay. Recently her film Ã¢â‚¬ËœThodi Life Thoda MagicÃ¢â‚¬â„¢ was released where she was casted opposite Jackie Shroff the film was unsuccessful. Anita Raj says that she will act if she is offered any good role/film.